Beautiful Data

The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions

Toby Segaran, Jeff Hammerbacher

384 pages, parution le 01/01/2009

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Résumé

In this insightful book, you'll learn from the best data practitioners in the field just how wide-ranging - and beautiful - working with data can be. Join 39 contributors as they explain how they developed simple and elegant solutions on projects ranging from the Mars lander to a Radiohead video.

With Beautiful Data, you will:

Explore the opportunities and challenges involved in working with the vast number of datasets made available by the Web Learn how to visualize trends in urban crime, using maps and data mashups Discover the challenges of designing a data processing system that works within the constraints of space travel Learn how crowdsourcing and transparency have combined to advance the state of drug research Understand how new data can automatically trigger alerts when it matches or overlaps pre-existing data Learn about the massive infrastructure required to create, capture, and process DNA data

That's only small sample of what you'll find in Beautiful Data. For anyone who handles data, this is a truly fascinating book. Contributors include:

Nathan Yau Jonathan Follett and Matt Holm J.M. Hughes Raghu Ramakrishnan, Brian Cooper, and Utkarsh Srivastava Jeff Hammerbacher Jason Dykes and Jo Wood Jeff Jonas and Lisa Sokol Jud Valeski Alon Halevy and Jayant Madhavan Aaron Koblin with Valdean Klump Michal Migurski Jeff Heer Coco Krumme Peter Norvig Matt Wood and Ben Blackburne Jean-Claude Bradley, Rajarshi Guha, Andrew Lang, Pierre Lindenbaum, Cameron Neylon, Antony Williams, and Egon Willighagen Lukas Biewald and Brendan O'Connor Hadley Wickham, Deborah Swayne, and David Poole Andrew Gelman, Jonathan P. Kastellec, and Yair Ghitza Toby Segaran Recommended for You

L'auteur - Toby Segaran

Toby Segaran est directeur du développement chez Genstruct, une entreprise spécialisée en bio-informatique pour laquelle il conçoit des algorithmes. Il collabore également à des projets Open Source, en proposant des analyses et recherches de valeurs dans les jeux de données collectées. Il est en outre connu pour certaines de ses applications web gratuites Tasktoy et Lazybase.

Sommaire

Chapter 1 Seeing Your Life in Data
Chapter 2 The Beautiful People: Keeping Users in Mind When Designing Data Collection Methods
Chapter 3 Embedded Image Data Processing on Mars
Chapter 4 Cloud Storage Design in a PNUTShell
Chapter 5 Information Platforms and the Rise of the Data Scientist
Chapter 6 The Geographic Beauty of a Photographic Archive
Chapter 7 Data Finds Data
Chapter 8 Portable Data in Real Time
Chapter 9 Surfacing the Deep Web
Chapter 10 Building Radiohead's House of Cards
Chapter 11 Visualizing Urban Data
Chapter 12 The Design of Sense.us
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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	O'Reilly
Auteur(s)	Toby Segaran, Jeff Hammerbacher
Parution	01/01/2009
Nb. de pages	384
Couverture	Broché
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780596157111
ISBN13	978-0-596-15711-1